Beauty Is the Beast: Appearance-Impaired Children in America
ISBN: 9781512800647
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Disfigured children -- United States -- Sociological aspects; Stigma (Social psychology);

Beauty is the Beast examines the stigmatism of children who deviate from American standards for acceptable physical appearance. Beuf analyzes both the effects of this stigmatization on children and the strategies used to cope with it.


Ann Hill Beuf was Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of several books, including Biting Off the Bracelet, also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
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